Through it all, his family tried to say close, even as they fell into despair. They were close, even as Lenny couldn't get help anymore.
That day came, on March 29, 2014. Police found Lenny Boldman in a Seaside Park winter rental, in boxer shorts and wearing a T-shirt in a bathtub, in a puddle of water. He was dead, the effects of years of heroin use.
These details of his life are among the central pieces of The Press's Children of Heroin Series, which recounts how a strong man with a close family descended into a world of heroin and neglect.
Now that family is struggling to resurrect their lives, even turning to GoFundMe for help as they look for a home, or some semblance of safety, stability and security that they lost since their father's drug abuse took its toll.
